Archive for the 'Mobile Web Tech' Category

Anatomy of a mobile web experience: facebook.com

April 11 2012 No Commented

This is the second article in a series about how the major internet brands deliver their mobile web experience. The previous article is available here: Anatomy of a mobile web experience: google.com read more mobiForge Recent Content

Anatomy of a mobile web experience: google.com

March 29 2012 No Commented

In a recent blog post that I did here on mobiForge (Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites) some people expressed surprise that a 47 byte difference in the HTML payload delivered by Google to different devices constituted a significant level of server-side adaptation. On checking my results, it turned out [...]

DeviceAtlas API 1.4

March 14 2012 No Commented

This week was an important one for DeviceAtlas – we finally launched the new 1.4 version of our API! Why 1.4? The mobile web is constantly evolving, and with it, device detection needs to evolve too. With significant evolution in device capabilities, and large structural developments in certain device headers, the new DeviceAtlas API provides [...]

Future of the Mobile Web Whitepaper

February 23 2012 No Commented

We're very happy to publish this paper arising from the The Future of the Mobile Web event held at the Dublin Convention Centre in January 2012. We covered a lot of ground and the paper is a serious attempt to capture all the topics covered from HTML5 to responsive design to device detection and many [...]

Future of the Mobile Web

February 3 2012 No Commented

Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre. read more mobiForge Recent Content

Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites

January 11 2012 No Commented

About 82% of the Alexa 100 top sites use some form of server-side device detection to serve content on their main website entry point. As you descend from the top 10 to the top 25 and top 100 sites the percentage of sites using server-side detection falls from 100% to 96% to 82%. This is [...]

Future of the Mobile Web: Request for submissions

January 6 2012 No Commented

Dear mobiForge community, We have invited a number of colleagues and opinion formers from across several different verticals to a forum event in Dublin on January 26th next to discuss some of the most pressing issues, trends, opportunities and challenges in today’s mobile web environment. People from companies like Adobe, Cloud Four, Nokia, Yiibu and [...]